Battle of Naseby
June 14, 1645
Parliament's New Model Army, the first fully professional English force, crushed Charles I at Naseby in Northamptonshire. Captured royal correspondence revealed the king's secret negotiations with Irish Catholics and foreign powers, destroying what remained of his reputation. The first civil war was essentially over, and the road from battlefield to scaffold now stretched before the defeated king.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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